CeCe McDonald Released From Prison

CeCe McDonald was released from a men’s Minnesota prison this morning after serving 19 months of her 41-month sentence, BuzzFeed reports.

McDonald, a transgerder woman who was convicted of for fatally stabbing a man who attacked her during a hate crime in Minneapolis on the night of June 5, 2011, will be supervised by the Minnesota Department of Corrections for the remainder of her sentence, according to Michael Friedman, executive director of the Legal Rights Center, which represented McDonald in court last year.

Last spring, McDonald, who identifies as female, was sentenced to 41 months in prison after she plead guilty to 2nd degree manslaughter for the stabbing death of Dean Schmitz.